He was getting too picayunish and too smart for outdoor work.

That invention I suppressed was something so enormous, Dwight, that anything that ever has or ever will be invented is picayunish squabbling beside it.

Although this is a picayunish point, consider that wrestlers are also divided up, according to the author, into lightweight, featherweight, welterweight, middleweight , and heavyweight , as are boxers.

He simply left him to deal with the picayunish political and economic affairs while Flanders concentrated on melding the State Department and military into a functioning team handling everything concerning the spaceship-and it appeared as if he were succeeding.